34. Baseball . the serving of the ball to the batter by the
pitcher, usually preceded by a windup or stretch.

35. a pitching movement or forward plunge, as of a ship.

36. upward or downward inclination or slope: a road
descending at a steep pitch.

37. a sloping part or place: to build on the pitch of a
hill.

38. a quantity of something pitched or placed somewhere.

39. Cricket . the central part of the field; the area
between the wickets.

40. Informal .

a. a high-pressure sales talk.

b. a specific plan of action; angle.

41. the specific location in which a person or object is
placed or stationed; allotted or assigned place.

42. Chiefly British . the established location, often a
street corner, of a beggar, street peddler, newspaper vendor, etc.

43. Aeronautics .

a. the nosing of an airplane or spacecraft up or down about
a transverse axis.

b. the distance that a given propeller would advance in one
revolution.

44. (of a rocket or guided missile)

a. the motion due to pitching.

b. the extent of the rotation of the longitudinal axis
involved in pitching.

45. Also called plunge. Geology . the inclination of a
linear feature, as the axis of a fold or an oreshoot, from the horizontal.

46. Machinery .

a. the distance between the corresponding surfaces of two
adjacent gear teeth measured either along the pitch circle (circular pitch) or
between perpendiculars to the root surfaces (normal pitch).

b. the ratio of the number of teeth in a gear or splined
shaft to the pitch circlediameter,
expressed in inches.

c. the distance between any two adjacent things in a series,
as screw threads, rivets, etc.

47. (in carpet weaving) the weft-wise number of warp ends,
usually determined in relation to 27 inches (68.6 cm).

48. Cards .

a. all fours . a game for two or three players or two
partnerships in which a 52-card pack is used, the object being to win special
scoring values for the highest trump, the lowest trump, the jack, the ace, the
ten, and the face cards.

b. auction pitch . a variety of all fours in which players
bid to determine the trump or pitch.

49. Masonry . a true or even surface on a stone.

50. (of typewriter type) a unit of measurement indicating
the number of characters to a horizontal inch.

- noun

1. any of various dark, tenacious, and viscous substances
for caulking and paving, consisting of the residue of the distillation of coal
tar or wood tar.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

1. a medieval glove, as of mail or plate, worn by a knight
in armour to protect the hand.

2. a glove with an extended cuff for the wrist.

3. the cuff itself.

-noun.

1. a former punishment, chiefly military, in which the
offender was made to run between two rows of men who struck at him as he
passed.

2. the two rows of men administering this punishment.

3. an attack from two or all sides.

4. trying conditions; an ordeal.

5. Also: gantlet - Railroads . a track construction used in
narrow places, in which two parallel tracks converge so that their inner rails
cross, run parallel, and diverge again, thus allowing a train to remain on its
own track at all times.

Monday, 6 August 2012

1. any small burrowing mammal, of the family Talpidae, of Europe,
Asia, and North and Central America: order Insectivora
(insectivores). They have velvety, typically dark fur and forearms
specialized for digging

2. golden mole . any small African burrowing mole-like mammal of the
family Chrysochloridae, having copper-coloured fur: order Insectivora
(insectivores)

3. informal . a spy who has infiltrated an organization and, often
over a long period, become a trusted member of it

-noun

Also mol . the basic SI unit of amount of substance; the amount that
contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012
kilogram of carbon-12. The entity must be specified and may be an
atom, a molecule, an ion, a radical, an electron, a photon, etc.

-noun

1. a breakwater

2. a harbour protected by a breakwater

3. a large tunnel excavator for use in soft rock

-noun

pathology . a fleshy growth in the uterus formed by the degeneration
of foetal tissues